Nitrate and phosphate removel

[James J]

What's the best way to remove nit and phos?wondering if there's 1 thing that will do it?

 

[Uwdanno]

Reactors. GFO/carbon/bioballs. Do a search on those

 

[James J]

I've researched all of those and got diff reviews on all,was hoping someone had a magic solution to 1 thing that would do it

 

[bayoupr]

GFO for phosphate, regular water changes and a good skimmer for nitrates. This is what works for me. I tried the vodka, vinegar, bio-pellets and none of these worked for me. You could install and run a Algae Scrubber, heard good things about this method.

 

[dmh41532]

Regular water changes and a good skimmer will help with nitrate, for phosphate removal, rodi water and a media reactor with gfo

 

[Mark75]

macro algae will reduce both but the amount needed may not be practical.

 

[James J]

Thanks guys for the feed,I have 6 tank going and setting up a 320,I've run fuge's and always had to do something else to help keep nit down,bio pellet seam to work but I get red slime in tank and the pellets turn red,I dose nopox on 2 tanks and nit are 0 but phos are around 20 and Im scared to dose more then I am now since nit are at 0,I run over size skimmers on all my tanks and do a 10% wwc every week and 25% every 4th week(once a month)I've just started with gfo 2 weeks ago on 1 of the tanks,waiting to see what happens,it's just that I'm setting up this 320 and want to get it right from the get go.im not going to run a fuge on it since it doesn't really take care of the problems,I'm going to give a algae scrubber a try on 1 of the tanks to see what happens,thanks again guys,I just needed others opinion to help me make my mind up

 

[bayoupr]

Thanks guys for the feed,I have 6 tank going and setting up a 320,I've run fuge's and always had to do something else to help keep nit down,bio pellet seam to work but I get red slime in tank and the pellets turn red,I dose nopox on 2 tanks and nit are 0 but phos are around 20 and Im scared to dose more then I am now since nit are at 0,I run over size skimmers on all my tanks and do a 10% wwc every week and 25% every 4th week(once a month)I've just started with gfo 2 weeks ago on 1 of the tanks,waiting to see what happens,it's just that I'm setting up this 320 and want to get it right from the get go.im not going to run a fuge on it since it doesn't really take care of the problems,I'm going to give a algae scrubber a try on 1 of the tanks to see what happens,thanks again guys,I just needed others opinion to help me make my mind up

The GFO you are running on that one tank could exhaust itself within a couple of days of less if your phos is that high. I was changing regular GFO out every two to three days when my was high, now once every three to four weeks. High capacity GFO will run longer than regular.